Why Being Young for Grade Increases Odds of ADHD Diagnosis and Stimulant Medication

By Dr. David Rabiner | June 21, 2012

ADHD is the most com­mon­ly diag­nosed neu­robe­hav­ioral dis­or­der in chil­dren and sub­stan­tial evi­dence indi­cates that bio­log­i­cal fac­tors play an impor­tant role in its devel­op­ment. For exam­ple, although the exact mech­a­nism by which genet­ic fac­tors con­vey increased risk for ADHD remains unclear, the impor­tance of genet­ic trans­mis­sion has been doc­u­ment­ed in a num­ber of pub­lished studies.…

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Male clin­i­cians may be misdiag­nosing 39% of ADHD-diagnosed boys

By Alvaro Fernandez | March 23, 2012

39% We had sev­er­al read­ers high­light this strik­ing sta­tis­tic from yes­ter­day’s blog post, Is ADHD over­diag­nosed? Find­ings from a new study in Ger­many This is but anoth­er exam­ple on the grow­ing need to base behavioral/ men­tal health pre­ven­tion, diag­nos­tic and treat­ment not on symp­toms alone, but to mea­sure and incor­po­rate objec­tive mark­ers of brain func­tion, as…

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Neurofeedback/ Quantitative EEG for ADHD diagnosis

By Dr. David Rabiner | November 23, 2008 |

Like all psy­chi­atric dis­or­ders, ADHD is diag­nosed based on the pres­ence of par­tic­u­lar behav­ioral symp­toms that are judged to cause sig­nif­i­cant impair­ment in an indi­vid­u­al’s func­tion­ing, and not on the results of a spe­cif­ic test. In fact, recent­ly pub­lished ADHD eval­u­a­tion guide­lines from the Amer­i­can Acad­e­my of Pedi­atrics (AAP) explic­it­ly state that no par­tic­u­lar diagnostic…

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